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alt.bank, Brazil’s latest fintech targeting the unbanked, raises $5.5M
Earlier this year there was a focus on Nubank’s $400 million Series G, last month there was the PicPay IPO filing and today, ...
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Indonesian P2P lender Amartha bags $28m from Women’s World Banking fund
Peer-to-peer lending startup Amartha has said that it received a US$28 million investment from the Women’s World Banking Capital Partners II fund and ...
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Kenyan start-ups secure record funding in Africa
The entrepreneurial spirit has been growing across Kenya’s agri-tech, e-commerce, fintech and logistics sub-sectors. The growth has attracted large funding rounds from international ...
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Absa Bank Ghana Engages Startups On Customer Service Strategies
Absa Bank Ghana has engaged about 70 Ghanaian-owned startup businesses on how to grow their business by providing solution-oriented services to customers. Participating ...
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Solar roof-tile and energy startup SunRoof closes €4.5M led by Inovo Venture Partners
SunRoof is a European startup that has come up with a clever idea. It has its own roof-tile technology that generates solar power. ...
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Google partners with Andela and Pluralsight to support 40,000 African developers
Google has partnered with Andela and Pluralsight to launch developer scholarships. The company offers Android, Google cloud, and web scholarships to cover intermediate ...
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€20,000+funding for Southern Africa startups at prestigious Justice Accelerator
Game-changing justice startups looking for the opportunity to take their business to new heights have until 30 April 2021 to enter the prestigious Hague ...
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Hyundai invests in teleoperations startup Ottopia as part of $9M round
After spending much of his career in mission-critical environments, including the Israeli Air Force, Israeli Intelligence and leading development of a cybersecurity product ...
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27-year-old female ex-banker raises $1 million for her tech startup
To the surprise of the cryptocurrency world, AFEN, the first government-backed NFT initiative, held one of the quickest public sales in the crypto ...
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Saudi fintech startup secures $670k seed funding
Saudi fintech startup Prexle has raised SR2.5 million ($670,000) in seed funding from angel investors, the company announced this week. A cloud-based point-of-sale ...